[Rivet] problems with RivetGun/Alpgen

[renkel at physics.smu.edu]

Dear developers,

Do you know the answer to this question please? Thank you!

Peter.

Quoting renkel at physics.smu.edu:

> Dear Eike, Andy,
>
> Thanks a lot! It now installs properly with no errors. However, I 
> still have the same issue:
>
>>>      Error type 8 has occured after        0 PYEXEC calls:
>>>      (PYGIVE:) do not recognize variable ALPGEN
>>> 1****************** PYINIT: initialization of PYTHIA routines
>>> *****************
>>> INPUT NAME OF FILE CONTAINING EVENTS
>>> (FOR "file.unw" ENTER "file")
>>> list in: end of file
>>> apparent state: unit 5 (unnamed)
>>> last format: list io
>>> lately reading sequential formatted external IO
>
> Pythia does not get ALPGEN events due to an unknown symbol ALPGEN. By 
> the way, same happens with Herwig. It also asks for the file of 
> unweighted events.
>
> Peter.
>
>
> Quoting Eike von Seggern <jan.eike.von.seggern at physik.hu-berlin.de>:
>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> the installation directory can be set with ./configure:
>>
>> ./configure --prefix /somewhere/you/have/access
>>
>> eike
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 19:08 -0500, renkel at physics.smu.edu wrote:
>>> Hi Andy,
>>>
>>> So what I did was I copied AGILe from lxplus, make clean, configure,
>>> make all, make install
>>>
>>> At make install, the system complained that it can not write to
>>> /usr/local/. Since I don't access there, I tried to use make install
>>> exec_prefix=my_directory.
>>>
>>> It still wanted /usr/local/, so I just copied all the libraries by hand.
>>>
>>> Now when I start like that:
>>>
>>> agile-runmc AlpGenPythia6:420 -P falppyt-default.params -n 100
>>>
>>> It works, but asks me about some file. It looks like Pythia does not
>>> get information from ALPGEN. Here is the output.
>>>
>>>
>>>      Error type 8 has occured after        0 PYEXEC calls:
>>>      (PYGIVE:) do not recognize variable ALPGEN
>>> 1****************** PYINIT: initialization of PYTHIA routines
>>> *****************
>>> INPUT NAME OF FILE CONTAINING EVENTS
>>> (FOR "file.unw" ENTER "file")
>>> list in: end of file
>>> apparent state: unit 5 (unnamed)
>>> last format: list io
>>> lately reading sequential formatted external IO
>>>
>>> What can I do here please?
>>>
>>> Peter.
>>>
>>> PS. D0 does not have SVN
>>>
>>> Quoting Andy Buckley <andy.buckley at ed.ac.uk>:
>>>
>>> > On 13/04/10 21:20, renkel at physics.smu.edu wrote:
>>> >> Hi Andy,
>>> >>
>>> >> There is no boost at FNAL. I used it to install it at FNAL, but if I
>>> >> want to install it on lxplus, it takes 100M of memory. This amount of
>>> >> data I can not put on lxplus to copy to my fermilab account. Is there
>>> >> any way out please? Can I just copy Rivet and Agile, and then install
>>> >> boost from FNAL somehow please?
>>> >
>>> > You can (and should) just copy AGILe: we wouldn't advise using the HEAD
>>> > version of Rivet at the moment as it is being actively developed.
>>> > Hopefully you can find a system copy of Boost at FNAL... it doesn't
>>> > sound like the most flexible or up to date system... they *really* still
>>> > haven't installed an SVN client?!
>>> >
>>> > Andy
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Dr Andy Buckley
>>> > SUPA Advanced Research Fellow
>>> > Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Edinburgh
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
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